1. Sherwood Anderson and
... would often use it a great deal and worked his methods to their full potential. When it came to telling stories Anderson stayed simple. "The diction and syntax were consciously unliterary" (Benet pg 37) is a description of one of the many ways Anderson wrote. In using simple, uneducated language, he added to the realism of not only the story's characters, but also ... the language a real person of that sort would use. Credibility was not the only thing Anderson was aiming for. "With [the style] Anderson was capable of exploring unusual psychological depths" (Benet pg 37). This means tha...
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